The Descent of Alette
$29.04
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 April 1996
Summary
The Descent of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as sh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140587647 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140587640 |
| Author: | Alice Notley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 1996 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Poets |
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About The Author
Alice Notley
Alice Notley (1945 -2025) was born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California. She is the author of more than forty books of poetry, including Mysteries of Small Houses (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Disobedience (winner of the Griffin Prize); and Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, which received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Her honors also include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
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